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Looking at both historical paintings and contemporary art, learn how to construct your own landscapes using multi-media: collage and oil pastel. Visits to William Townsend: Painting Alberta, Details of Canada will give you an opportunity see how a master artist edits, dissects, and re-constructs shape into recognizable images.

Get inspired just like the professional artists do! Come visit William Townsend: Painting Alberta, Details of Canada in order to see the work of the contemporary Canadian artists who influenced Townsend’s more abstract work. Create your own exploration of modernist methods & techniques on a large surface with lots of bold colours and paint.

Discover and try new brush techniques. Tour images of Canadian landscape in William Townsend: Painting in Canada, and make an art work that explores dry brush and stippling.

How can you capture a moment in time; a lasting memory; a special place? How do you turn an object into an artistic artifact? After visiting our current exhibition, Wild Wood, create unique designs by pressing fresh flowers and plants, transforming them into mounted works of natural art.

Printmaking, multi-media, and a fully stocked studio are at your disposal to complete, continue or begin an art work. Perhaps you have a project in mind but haven’t begun? Perhaps a favourite memory or photograph? A tour of the gallery exhibitions will trigger your creativity and get you started, or unlock your creativity to complete your project.

Explore historical artworks in our exhibits in order to find a diverse range of backgrounds, midgrounds, and foregrounds that you’ll then be able to use in-studio to create a 3D cardboard landscape relief sculpture. Use found objects and oil pastels for added details and expression for the story you want to tell.

This special series is inspired by artists featured in AGA exhibitions this summer, who took to new environments to paint outdoors, or en plein air. 

Happy Father’s Day! It’s your day and we want to treat you to free gallery admission all day.

BMO World of Creativity: Wild Wood is our destination today. Have fun learning how to make a simple pinch pot out of clay. Make it a nature vessel by using various textures from natural materials.

How do objects transform? How do you tell a story through texture? Find the answers in our current exhibition, Landmark: A New Chapter Acquisition Project. Head back to the studio to tell your own story with found objects and surprise yourself with the printed results.